Cloud Hobbit <
youngbl...@gmail.com> wrote in
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> On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 9:25:26 PM UTC-7, JTEM wrote:
>> W.T.S., ^6c1^The Lamp of Golden Truth!* wrote:
>> [nothing]
>>
>> Do you remember to wipe your mouth after you shit?
>>
>> Darwin was never a "Scientist." Darwin didn't
>> even know what evolution was! The jackass used
>> the word "Transmutation" until people a lot
>> smarter than him managed to bang some sense into
>> his head...
>>
>> Darwin was a disgrace. The only people WORSE
>> than Darwin are the assholes who preach ignorance,
>> who want people to believe in myths like Darwin.
>>
> Since your claims run counter to everything anybody can find on the
> subject of Darwin, how about you provide some sources for your insane
> screeds?
>
> If you can't or won't provide them, we'll have to assume you just made
> it all up again.
>
> He was so thorough that it took him 20 years to finally publish.
>
>
http://www.famousscientists.org/charles-darwin/
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http://tinyurl.com/jpr7p5v>
> The concept of evolution had been hatched thousands of years before
> Darwin’s time. In July 1837 Darwin began keeping a notebook of his
> thoughts and theories about the variation of plants and animals.
>
> Also, his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, had made some striking
> contributions to evolutionary theory, including the idea that all life
> has a common origin.
>
> By this time, he had completely accepted that species could evolve
> (or, to use Darwin’s language, transmute).
>
> He decided he would make his investigation according to the principles
> of Francis Bacon. He would assemble facts before producing a theory.
>
> In October 1838 he read Thomas Malthus’s work on population, showing
> that populations increase until food runs out, then crash. There is a
> struggle for existence. Darwin said that having read Malthus: Charles
> Darwin“It at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable
> variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be
> destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species.
> Here, then, I had at last got a theory by which to work.”
>
> Charles Darwin
> Autobiography, written 1876
> By December 1838 Darwin was mulling over how breeders improve domestic
> animals by selecting the animals with the best qualities. In the
> natural world the selection is carried out by the environment. The
> lifeforms best adapted to the environment survive and breed. This is
> natural selection.
>
> In 1842 he wrote his first paper on what came to be known as evolution
> by natural selection, but only for his own use.
>
> In 1845 he published thoughts, formed much earlier, about the new
> species of finches he had discovered in the Galapagos Islands, saying
> he could imagine that one original species had been modified into all
> the different species he had seen.
>
> If Darwin had been an ambitious scientist, he could have published a
> theory of evolution by natural selection in 1839, but he didn’t. He
> continued:
>
> gathering and weighing evidence and assessing specimens from his
> voyage breeding animals and plants to determine how species could
> be modified by artificial selection writing books and papers about
> a variety of topics including geology
>
> Darwin’s Hand is Forced
>
> On 18 June 1858, aged 49, Darwin opened his mail and got a terrible
> shock. He had been corresponding with Alfred Russel Wallace, a young,
> self-trained naturalist who was on an expedition in the East Indies.
>
> Wallace now asked for Darwin’s opinion of a paper he had written.
> The paper described the theory of evolution by natural selection �€"
> the theory Darwin had spent decades gathering evidence for, but had
> never published. Darwin wrote back, offering his opinion that
> Wallace’s paper could be published in any journal of Wallace’s
> choosing.
>
> Darwin also showed Wallace’s paper to his scientific friends Charles
> Lyell (Wallace had requested this) and Joseph Dalton Hooker.
>
> Darwin was in crisis at this time because his young son had been
> terribly sick, eventually dying of scarlet fever on June 28.
>
> His friends were aware that Darwin had actually arrived at the theory
> first. They decided the joint theories of Darwin and Wallace should be
> read to the Linnean Society on July 1. Darwin did not attend the
> reading. His son’s funeral came first.
>
> So poor JTEM, you are as usual, completely wrong and a liar.
> Unless you have some stunning new accounts of Darwin's life and
> discoveries, you are obviously lying, again.
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